Hello! I've updated again! Thank you to all those who have reviewed, because you made me smile everytime I got e-mail. I'm going to try to get all this up as soon as possible so that I can concetrate on my Mummy fanfic coming up, just in case you cared. So there you go.

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Lady Nierwen: Look! I updated! Thank you for saying that. Considering the standard of your work that means a lot to me. And thank you for the name suggestions. Very very very helpful. Thank you also for reviewing (lol to you too!), and I hope my reviews made you a happy little british chick too.

Mwaha, on with the story.

"May I ask why you told your parents we had sex" Xander asked once Indi had finished explaining.

"I've already told you that. If I hadn't 'confessed' then my mom would have found all my witchy stuff and things would have been much worse."

"Yes but there are many other things you could have told her, such as 'We were practicing kissing.' or 'We were planning your surprise birthday party.' Are you getting the point"

"I know, it was a stupid thing to do, but I panicked! I am sorry you know."

"Well, let's get back to what you were doing." Giles said. "Did you find anything of use"

"Sorry, no. The pressure in my head was so immense that I only managed to grasp one past vision and it had nothing to do with now." Indi answered apologetically.

Giles removed his glasses and rubbed his temples. "Well, we're back to square one. Buffy, can you patrol tonight"

"Sure. I might even check Willy's and see if he's heard anything."

"I'll go with Buffy. I need to kick some vampire butt to soothe my nerves." Indi offered.

"All right. Willow, Xander and I will see if we've overlooked any clue, any prophecy." Giles yawned. They'd been checking that the night before until the small hours and it was showing on the librarian.

"More research." Willow chirped. "O.K., I can do that."

"Man, I hope we get somewhere soon, before this 'big bad' comes." Xander said, stretching. There was a grim nod of agreement from everyone else.

Indi had successfully climbed from her window with various weaponry clasped to her belt. Despite her sharpened senses, she wasn't aware that her parents were following her. They'd expected her to sneak out and were planning on following her to see where she was going. The weaponry had confused them, but they pressed on.

10 minutes later Indi had jogged to Willy's Bar where Buffy was waiting.

"Successful sneaking." she laughed, still blissfully unaware that she had been followed.

"Cool. Now let's go beat up a bartender, then we can hit the graveyards." said Buffy. So they went in, but they didn't beat up a bartender, because the bartender was already beaten up.

"Willy, what happened" Buffy demanded. Indi looked around at the bar. It was smashed up and splashed with blood, much like Willy.

"A group of vampire - bigger and uglier than usual - they came in and they ordered everybody out. No one argued 'coz they were spooked by these symbols carved on these guy's foreheads. I didn't recognise it, but most of my customers did and scrammed real quick. The vamps growl at me and say 'You've been dealing on the wrong side of Finn Miller.' This is the point where I get real worried because Finn Miller is a very powerful guy, like the vampire equivalent of the Mafia. He's real tough, got a huge following. You never cross him, unless you've got a death wish." Willy rambled. He was bleeding from his nose and was constantly wiping it.

"That must be the 'big bad' the Watcher's Council warned us about." Buffy whispered.

"Must be pretty big and bad for the Council to be afraid of telling us." Indi mused.

"He can't be that powerful, I haven't heard of him." Buffy said.

"Oh, you wouldn't have done." Willy stammered. "It's well known that if you set a Slayer on Finn Miller's trail then not only does the girl get killed but you do too, whether you're a Watcher or a lowly bartender." Willy's ribs were broken, causing him to wince in pain whenever he breathed in. Indi sympathised a great deal.

Indi's parents at this point were stationed outside listening. They were inevitably horrified, if not in denial. Unsure if the glass was muffling what they were hearing, the two crept inside and hid behind an upturned table to hear better.

"Willy, do you think you could draw the symbol for me? It might help us figure out what we're up against." Indi asked. She was rummaging through her bag in search of some herbal remedies to help Willy heal from his injuries quicker.

"I don't need to, they carved it into the bar top." he sniffed. "I'd just shelled out for a brand new one too."

Buffy got up and examined the symbol. "Indi, you'd better look at this." she called. Indi came and scrutinised the carving for a few seconds before she finally identified it.

"It's Egyptian. It means 'Apocalypse'."

"Cheerful." Buffy chirped sarcastically.

"Yeah." Indi agreed. "Considering the Watcher's Council warned you to be on your guard, and we have a full moon coming up, I'm guessing Finn Miller is planning to perform a ritual to open the Hellmouth."

"That's all? We've stopped countless attempts at opening the Hellmouth" Buffy scoffed.

Indi looked at her gravely. "The Council's never been afraid of previous attempts." she pointed out.

Buffy sighed. "Well, we'll just have to kill this Finn Miller before the full moon."

"Not if he kills you first." said a gruff snarling voice. Buffy and Indi whirled round to see three very big vampires standing in the doorway. Each had the Egyptian symbol carved onto their foreheads, but the guy in the middle had it carved onto his gouged-out eyes too. He was the one who had spoken.

"You've done well to discover this much, but you will die before you can learn anymore." said the eyeless vampire. "Let me introduce myself. I'm Finn Miller."

"Well, duh" said Buffy, tightening the grip on her stake.

Willy suddenly sprang to life, stammering his apologies. "Hey, Mr Miller! I-I didn't mean to t-to spill the beans ya know. The witch, she put a spell on me, I..."

"Quiet" Finn snapped, interrupting Willy. "I know what happened, and you'll be punished." He snapped his fingers and the other two vampires advanced towards Willy. Buffy lunged for the one on the left. Indi lunged for the one on the right. Within seconds they were dust.

Though Finn Miller couldn't see what had happened, Indi knew he had heard the chilling sound of the vampires turning to dust. Even if he hadn't heard it, he would have smelled the dust - it was the putrid smell of years of delayed decay. Indi was trying to fan it from her nostrils when she picked up a new scent all together - fear. She knew for a fact that it wasn't Willy as he'd passed out when Finn's goons had started towards him. Who was afraid if not Willy?

Now that Indi had been alerted to the smell of fear, she could smell another familiar odour coming from the same direction. It was her mother's perfume. She'd finally been alerted to her parent's presence. Unfortunately, so had Finn Miller. Quicker than Indi or Buffy could realise, Finn stomped over to Mr and Mrs Stokesbridge's hiding place and picked them up by their throats.

"Mmm." he mumbled. "Lunch"

Indi's eyes widened at the thought of her parents suffering the same fate as she had done. She snapped into action and hurled a stake with all her might at Finn Miller. It was aimed to hit him from behind, right in the heart. Just one more second and Finn would be no more. However, in that second he dropped Erica and Stanley, spun around and caught the stake between the palms of his hands. He snarled and flung it back so that Indi was the target, with pretty good aim for a blind guy. Indi quickly used magick to levitate the stake in the air and hold it there for a few seconds before letting it drop. Finn was going to be tougher than she thought.

Buffy launched herself at Finn whilst Indi rushed to her parent's sides. They stared at her in shock. She could only force a soothing smile.

Buffy, meanwhile, was throwing punch after punch at Miller. Left hook, right hook, jab after jab. He blocked every one. She tried to catch him with a spinning kick but he caught her foot and threw her across the room. She thumped her head against the far wall and everything went black.

"So, friend of Slayer. You slaughter my henchmen, I knock your friend unconscious. Now it is just us two vampires and the snacks over there." Finn said, mocking Indi. "Don't look so shocked, friend of Slayer. I know you are a vampire because I can smell it on you."

"You know I can finish you with one simple spell." Indi threatened as she stood to meet him.

"Ha! I have seen every hex, enchantment and incantation. There is not one spell that I cannot evade, young witch. You have no choice but to fight me." Finn laughed.

Indi pointedly fastened her stake to her belt. "I am not foolish enough to do that. If Buffy was no physical match for you, then neither am I. There is one spell I have that you will not be familiar with, you unsighted worm, and I'm going to use it. It's a spell I made up that brings forth a form of sunlight, a very difficult thing for a blind man to dodge."

"Ha! You would destroy yourself also with sunlight. You are bluffing"

Indi smirked as she held her hand out in front of her. "Am I" She closed her eyes.

A small light appeared, like a firefly, and hovered above the centre of her open palm. Indi could feel the tingle of its heat as it fought to penetrate her sun-block spell. Slowly, the light grew to the size of a tennis ball, and tiny flames could be seen. It was beginning to look like a mini sun, and though Indi was so far unaffected, its rays of light were already sizzling their way through Finn Miller. Still, it grew, to the size of a basketball. Pieces of charred flesh were peeling off of Finn. Indi grinned as she watched her foe squirm.

"This is as big as I can make it without incantation. I could just leave it like this and burn you to dust, layer by layer."

"Why do you not also burn? You are a vampire, like me, I can smell it! Does your soul protect you from the sun" Finn spluttered.

"You'll never know, scar face." Indi spat. She let the min sun burn a while longer before she became bored. "O.K., this is taking too long. I have a huge biology test tomorrow, so I'm gonna be kind and speed this whole process up."

"You have little patience for an immortal, witch." Finn grunted, buying himself time. Unfortunately for him, Indi wasn't selling. Instead, she began to chant out loud what she had been saying in her head for the past five minutes:

'Fire, fire, burning bright.

Destroying things within your might.

Give no mercy, be not kind.

Burn much brighter, doom and bind.'

Almost instantly the star doubled in size and the bar was filled with a powerful sunlight. It was fighting through Indi's sun-block spell and her hand with which she held the sun was turning pink. Finn was beyond turning pink and burst into flames. There was nothing left of him by the time Indi broke her spell and the sun disappeared. Indi quickly held her burnt hand under her arm, breathing in through her teeth.

"Indi, honey" Stanley whispered as he helped his wife to her feet.

"Yes dad"

"Why did that man call you a vampire? Why did he call you a witch? Why didn't you correct him"

Indi hung her head and let out a long, deep sigh. "Mom, dad. I will explain, but right now I have to check if Buffy's O.k."

"We'll be at home waiting." Erica said, her voice trembling and her hand reaching for her prayer beads.

"I won't be coming straight home. I have to stop off at the school library and tell a few people they can go home."

"Then we'll wait there."

Erica and Stanley then turned and hobbled out the door, still in shock. Indi watched them leave and sunk to her knees, sobbing. She was so relieved that the truth had finally come out, but her parents' fear-stricken faces terrified her. People do terrible things when they're afraid, and Indi knew that all too well. O the other side of the bar, Buffy stirred as she came to. Slowly, she rose and walked over to comfort her friend, un-sure of what had happened.

I know. WHy would her parents follow her rather than just drag her back inside? I don't know. They're peculiar people, okay? Still, maybe that makes sense to you. Gah! I hate this story!

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